Synonyms of the word

swig

• v. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
• v. (obsolete) To suck.
• v. (nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling…
• n. A long draught from a drink.
• n. (nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
• n. Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.

deglutition

• n. (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.

draft

• n. (possibly archaic) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something…
• n. (possibly archaic) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
• n. (possibly archaic) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.
• n. An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing; a preliminary sketch or outline.
• n. (nautical) Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's…
• n. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
• n. Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
• n. An amount of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) that is drunk in one swallow.
• n. Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
• n. A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
• n. Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
• n. (politics) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
• n. (sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
• n. (rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
• n. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the…
• v. (transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
• v. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
• v. To write a law.
• v. (transitive) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
• v. To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
• v. (transitive, sports) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
• v. (intransitive) To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage…
• v. To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
• v. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
• adj. (not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

draught

• n. (Britain) Alternative form of draft in its various senses.
• n. (Britain) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
• n. (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
• n. (Britain, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
• n. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.
• v. British spelling spelling of draft.

drink

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
• v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
• v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
• v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
• n. A beverage.
• n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
• n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
• n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
• n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
• n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

gulp

• n. The usual amount swallowed.
• n. The sound of swallowing.
• n. A sound of swallowing indicating fear.
• v. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
• v. To react nervously by swallowing.
• interj. Indication of an involuntary fear reaction.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

imbibe

• v. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
• v. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

quaff

• v. To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.
• n. The act of quaffing, a deep draught.
• n. Misspelling of coif.

slog

• n. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
• n. (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
• v. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
• v. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
• v. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

slug

• n. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
• n. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. A bullet (projectile).
• n. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
• n. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
• n. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of…
• n. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared…
• n. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
• n. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
• n. (television editing) A black screen.
• n. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed…
• n. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
• n. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
• n. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
• n. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
• n. A ship that sails slowly.
• n. A blow, usually with the fist.
• v. To drink quickly; to gulp.
• v. To down a shot.
• v. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
• v. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation…
• v. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
• v. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
• v. To make sluggish.

swallow

• v. (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach…
• v. (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
• v. (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus…
• v. (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
• v. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
• v. To retract; to recant.
• v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
• n. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
• n. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
• n. A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked…
• n. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.